Arlo D.

Payphone found in the wild. No dial tone sadly. Please everyone note that Him is talking on a telephone and I am on a telephone. It's art, you wouldn't understand.

self love

The body you get when you order a human from Temu....

No.

I'm the secretary for my local democrats club. Before the election we had 10-20 members attend each monthly meeting. Tonight was the first since the election and we had over 80 people come. It was a nice outcome to a terrible situation.

It is horrible to be this mad all the time. I am called to be broken open with wonder and love for humanity, but right now I'm mostly scared for and of it.

Ok, but did he mean to include bellydancing people with beards?

Yes!!! Especially since the algorithms don't care where they are and will show me the artist if they match my aesthetic.

As someone who has used drugs I can say that I wish they were like this more often

One of the things about me that I have come to love is that I am a hoplessly romantic sap.

I'm over here writing a fantasy story using my polycule as inspiration for characters and our love story as fodder for the plot. It's full of imagery and symbolism that I feel represent the people I adore.

Families and doctors sue over Trump's order to halt funding for gender-affirming care President Donald Trump's effort to ban federal funding for gender-affirming care for young people is facing a legal challenge.

Breaking news: Lambda Legal and ACLU are suing on behalf of PFLAG and GLMA to end Trump's illegal executive order banning trans care under 19 years old.

The suit has been brought in Maryland.

A similar suit was brought on behalf of PFLAG to end child abuse investigations in TX 3 years ago.

Canadians and Europeans to trans people rn: Oh don't come here! Our healthcare is overtaxed and you'll wait months for appointments!

Me receiving a surgery today, Feb 4th, that was scheduled in August of last year: You don't say...

Just joining Xiaohongshu to watch the wholesome cross-cultural learning.

This day in 2019 I gave the interview. That would change the trajectory of my life and career. While I had given other interviews, this one made national distribution and was eventually nominated for an emmy.

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Went to a burlesque show which was part of a queer pagan ritual book release event. It filled my hedonistic gay heathen heart!

I had the same alarm clock in the 90's!!

Should I go get my masters degree?

Helping my kid get through drawing anxiety with some art therapy techniques has been lovely for us both.

Tennessee SG just said trans people "want a constitutional right to engage in non-conforming behavior" and that's really important because that argument wants to overturn the sex stereotyping precedents that ban laws from, say, requiring women to wear skirts.

Photo of two large cut out teeth 26th faces. They are smiling tooth grins

Close up shot of just the face and smile of a grinning tooth

Phots of a teef father and son cryptid pair that's out front of a county dentist's office.

I believe they control that poor soul and demand that the dentist havest face-bones to feed to the little one (so he can become big and strong.)

Tomorrow would have been Matthew Shephards 48th birthday.

(Portrait Copyright 2022, Washington National Cathedral. All rights reserved.)

A photograph of two heart shaped buttons. One has Harley Quinn and Joker where Joker is forcing Harley into a kiss on the cheek as she pulls away and looks unhappy. The other has Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy where Poison Ivy is tenderly kissing Harley on the cheek as she smiles and winks.

While digging around in the button bin at a popculture shop I found these two buttons. The stark contrast between these two relationships is succinctly summarized in these badges. Harley's body language says it all.

Is gender identity social shorthand for intrinsic sense of self? How did the binary gender expression options of man and woman become used to describe an internal experience? I mull over this vocabulary reuse and wonder which is the egg and which the hen.

For those looking for a good blocklist, this seems to be the definitive TERF blocklist out there.

If anyone has any other good blocklists for anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ hate accounts, share them here as well.

bsky.app/profile/hedg...

Noticing a substantial increase in right wing trolls on the platform. I’m glad the platform is growing and is definitely better than Twitter, but if it doesn’t get control of the hate content, it will be no better.

I learned how to make a balloon dog and dinosaur yesterday.

Why?

Because I'm going to keep being gentle, silly, and loving DAMNIT.

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Hello Bluesky. Time to be the content I want to see, huh?